Configure camera to receive trigger pulse from FPGA

[chiner]

Hello,

I have the Sony CCD camera, model xcd-sx910.

I will have a LabVIEW FPGA VI for image acquisition trigger by monitoring the voltage of a circuit.

I want to access the FPGA VI through myRIO for my image acquisition using the camera in LabVIEW on my laptop.

The camera has a BNC cable port trigger. Physically I can establish the connections to receive trigger from FPGA through myRIO and pass it to the camera whose image acquisition code will be running on my Windows laptop.

But, I am wondering how to configure the camera to receive the trigger pulse from the FPGA( in my LabVIEW code for image acquisition on laptop). I came across property nodes, but the info was all over and not sure if that's what I have to be looking into.

Basically trying to understand how to configure my camera to receive the trigger pulse as well as perform other adjustments like brightness, gain etc.

Has anyone dealt with this scenario. Requesting to share specific examples or suggestions.

[Bob_Schor]

A number of years ago, I tried to do something similar, but without the additional complexity of involving a myRIO and LabVIEW Real-Time.  One of the most difficult part of this task had nothing to do with configuring the TTL Trigger (I don't remember what I was using to make the TTL pulse, but that was the least of my problems).  The real issue was figuring out how to interface the Camera (which had its own Drivers that were not compatible with LabVIEW, and which had to be disabled in order for MAX to even notice the camera was attached) and IMAQdx.  It quickly became clear that even with the manual, and the detailed description about how our camera worked (information the Original Poster didn't provide to us), trying to operate the camera through IMAQdx calls (following the GenICam conventions) was not likely to be successful.  We reluctantly turned to Matlab and C++ to work with the manufacturer's drivers.

Bob Schor